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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1942, Page 2

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Mrs Mowat, Blenheim, is staying with her sister, Mrs Hubbard, Opaki Road, Masterton. Mrs Gilkison, Dunedin, is visiting her daughter, Mrs T. A. Parr, Opaki Road, Masterton. The Hon. J. G. Barclay, Minister of Agriculture, left Wellington yesterday for Christchurch. He will return to Wellington tomorrow. Miss Inna Lissienko, delegate of the Slavonic Council of New Zealand, representing the Russians, Poles, Yugoslavs, Czecho-slovakians and other Slav peoples, is visiting Masterton today. The death occurred from pneumonia at Te Whiti last evening of the eight-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Spencer Cotter. The funeral will leave the residence of Mr A. T. Hawke, Clareville, on Saturday, after a service commencing at 2 p.m., for the Clareville Cemetery. The Hon. W. J. Polson, Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes, is visiting Palmerston North today meeting the chairmen of the North Island Primary Production Councils. He is to meet the chairmen of the South Island councils in Christchurch on Tuesday. The “All Black brigadier,” stated by the official war correspondent with the N.Z.E.F. to have been captured by the Germans during the Ruweisat battle and to have escaped with a colonel by dropping to the ground and lying still, was Brigadier J. T. Burrows, said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, yesterday. He was formerly a master at the Christchurch Boys’ High School. The staff of the Social Security Department met on a recent occasion to bid farewell to Mr W. R. McMinn. The Registrar, Mr J. L. L. Wood, made a presentation on behalf of the staff to Mr McMinn and wished him every success in his new position. Mr McMinn, who has been transferred to the Child Welfare Department, Wellington, suitably replied.